Koban Universe 1 (Koban Series)
by Stephen W. Bennet, 2014

Tedious, terrible, and taxing.

Four somewhat related stories, none of which I found interesting.

Some ideas and concepts were cool, but not cool enough to make up for the lack of story.

Of the four stories, the one that tells how Kobani parents cope with their kids who posses contact telepathy was the only one that held a shred of my attention. The kids were basically trading images, information, ideas, memories via contact telepathy like contraband.


My rating: ★☆☆☆☆ (1 out of 5 stars) - I did not like it.





Description as found on Goodreads.com:

These four stories are derived from the same Universe as the Koban series of books, and are tales involving Koban life forms and the Kobani people. Reading the series is not a prerequisite. 

A fully gene enhanced petite Kobani woman finds herself trapped in total darkness, pursued by thousands of slavering, semi-sentient, maniacally aggressive aliens. Talk about walking on the dark side! 

The wolfbat Flock Leader takes his colony to an unexplored Koban continent to set up a nest in new territory. The wily leader uses his cooperative experience with humans to try to forge similar alliances with other native creatures. Not everyone wants to play nice. 

How do Kobani parents cope with children that are born with the contact telepathy gene, and have eidetic memory? Adults that think teenagers act like they know everything, never had an overconfident four-year old super child, with a ripper cub as his partner. 

When you land your spaceship in a ruthless Crime Lord’s city using false registry, it’s hard to convince a platoon of armed thugs that you’re only shopping, not smuggling without paying the boss his cut. If you happen to be Kobani, and buying everyone drinks in a spaceport bar, those thugs had best not spoil your fun with threats.